[JBB]

scooped these touge factory pulleys and a cheap magnetic oil drain plug



picked up a few more parts

heater hoses
oem water pump




did a little reading and decided to pick up an s14 water neck



did some more reading and figured i should get the s14 oil pickup/strainer



my friend thought it would be a good idea to get new timing guides. (later on when we got the front cover off one of the guides was cracked in half, the one that the newer version has a metal plate reinforcing it, so it was good that I bought these before we found that)


picked up these seats



got a 2 1/2 ton engine hoist for 80 bucks. it was a 45 minute drive to white-trash-ville where it was chained to a tree. no pictures

started rebuilding my turbo






this whole time i debated with myself about painting my engine
i had some down time and not a lot of money so i decided to stay busy by painting everything

i started out painting some of the accessories. I originally used VHT engine metallic on my turbo but it came out really blue so I ended up using duplicolor high heat aluminum paint



i saw this build and liked the idea of a gloss black with rainbow flake so i tried it out on my intercooler pipes




taped off my block, took like 12 hours to tape and cut all the electrical tape :O (i am no professional, and did it in couple hour increments while just relaxing, listening to some music and having a few beers)




i hit it with like 5-6 coats of primer and the same with the paint










started hitting a few other things like the upper oil pan